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The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. As such, there's going to be a mad dash over the next week to land lingering features and other improvements for Mesa 25.2. Making it into Mesa Git today was a big set of 42 patches for the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver...

Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia "Graphite" as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default. Skia Graphite aims to deliver much better performance within the Chrome/Chromium web browser...

Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 on Tuesday as the newest monthly update to this in-house Linux distribution used throughout the company and by external parties...

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 Brings Many Security Fixes  Phoronix

The first alpha release of PHP 8.5 was issued last week in kicking off the release cycle in working toward the official PHP 8.5.0 release later in the year...

Red Hat introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux for business developers  ZAWYA

AMD slips RDNA 3.5 IGPU firmware into Linux  Fudzilla.com

AMD slips RDNA 3.5 iGPU firmware into Linux  Fudzilla.com

I (almost) fixed this mini PC... by installing Linux  MSN

In 2013, Redmonk analyst Steven O’Grady positioned application developers as the new kingmakers. It was a role that enterprise IT had served since the rise of business-driven computing. First, systems administrators held the keys to the kingdom by having the (then) esoteric knowledge of the operating system - but as Linux took hold in the late 90s/early 00s, the applications, not the OS, took center stage. This made developers the unlikely “voice behind the throne” in a CxO monarchy. But we’re looking at another shift in royalty fabrication with the continued velocity of generative AI

Just over one year after the Amarok 3.0 release after a six year hiatus that brought it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5, Amarok 3.3 is out today as the first version taking it to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6...

KDE Plasma 6.3.6 Released with Numerous Improvements and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

I Left Windows 11 for Linux—Here’s the Best Distro to Start With  MakeUseOf

Amarok 3.3 Open-Source Music Player Is Out as First Release Fully Ported to Qt 6  9to5Linux

I run these 4 commands first on every fresh Linux install  XDA

GNOME 48.3 Adds Support for More Video/Audio Types in Nautilus’ Search Filter  9to5Linux

OBS Studio 31.1 Adds Linux Multitrack Video Support + More  OMG! Ubuntu

OBS Studio 31.1  OMG! Ubuntu

Here's an unexpected company match... GlobalFoundries announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS. Yes, the company formerly part of Wave Computing and before that Imagination and Silicon Graphics during its long history. MIPS in recent years hasn't been focused on its namesake CPU architecture but rather RISC-V core designs...

Made public minutes ago is Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) as a new class of class of speculative side channel attacks affecting AMD processors...